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adversity
  1. (uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
  2. (countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He has had to face much adversity, and he has done so with determination and dignity.”
      “He is a man who has had to face up to adversity and he has done so with determination and dignity.”
      “If we abandon our ideals in the face of adversity and aggression, then those ideals were never really in our possession.”
adverseness
  1. The state or quality of being adverse, or opposed.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But Completely opposite, Standing adverseness.”
      “Kurtul describes such connectives in four categories including adverseness, pragmatic adverseness, dissimilarity and pragmatic adverseness.”
      “This could lead to risk adverseness and a tendency to overcontrol and centralize decisionmaking when we may need to do just the opposite.”
adversion
  1. (obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After reflections back to his childhood, with particular emphasis on his adversion to making his bed, she realizes the adolescents of this generation do exactly what they want to do.”
      “In the past, as with all coating techniques throughout the world, Chromium was used to prepare the metals and create a strong adversion base for further processing.”
      “A combination of the recession and the banks' adversion to finance anything in the forestry sector made for some tough sledding in trying to raise working capital.”
adversary
  1. An opponent or rival.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I'm playing an old adversary on Monday, and we're both making excuses already.”
      “He was looking forward to crushing his hated adversary into the dusty surface of the desert!”
      “Manichaeus was the furious adversary of the Law and Prophets, the strenuous champion of the devil's cause, and blind worshipper of the sun.”
adversariness
  1. Quality of being adversary.
adversenesses
adversaries
  1. plural of adversary
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In an adversarial system of justice, however, judges are expected to crib from the arguments, ideas, and research of the adversaries.”
      “Military operations almost always involve an intense contest for time between adversaries.”
      “The explosive encounters of age-old adversaries have held a captivating magnetism for the human psyche since time immemorial.”
adversities
  1. plural of adversity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Successful added-value ventures also are well capitalized and able to cushion for unplanned adversities.”
      “And he, a man of experience and adversities, was not the kind of man to be indifferent to her courtesy.”
      “Heroes emerge who we take to our hearts, we rejoice with them in their successes and agonise with them in their adversities.”
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